NIR-ISL 2021

The 2021 NIR Iris Challenge Evaluation in Non-cooperative Environments: Segmentation and Localization (NIR-ISL 2021) was organised as part of the 2021 International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021). The challenge aimed at benchmarking the methods of iris segmentation and localization for NIR iris images from Asian and African people captured in non-cooperative environments.

Train and Testing datasets

CASIA.v4-distance [Google Drive] [Baidu Drive](kdd6)
CASIA-Iris-Complex-Occlusion [Google Drive] [Baidu Drive](oxgq)
CASIA-Iris-Complex-Off-angle [Google Drive] [Baidu Drive](u1nj)
CASIA-Iris-M1 [Google Drive] [Baidu Drive](nrg2)
CASIA-Iris-Africa [Google Drive] [Baidu Drive](fpmu)

Please send the email to wangcaiyong@bucea.edu.cn for requesting the password of files.

Citation

If you use our datasets for your research, please cite our papers.

@inproceedings{wang2021nir,
  title={NIR Iris Challenge Evaluation in Non-cooperative Environments: Segmentation and Localization},
  author={Wang, Caiyong and Wang, Yunlong and Zhang, Kunbo and Muhammad, Jawad and Lu, Tianhao and Zhang, Qi and Tian, Qichuan and He, Zhaofeng and Sun, Zhenan and others},
  booktitle={2021 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)},
  pages={1--10},
  year={2021},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Anyone is permitted to use, distribute and change this program for any non-commercial usage. However each of such usage and/or publication must include above citation of this paper. For any commercial usage, please send an email to wangcaiyong@bucea.edu.cn or caiyong.wang@cripac.ia.ac.cn.

Evaluation

Please refer to https://github.com/xiamenwcy/IrisParseNet and https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/tia/data/glascontest/evaluation for details.

Results

The top-3 winning solutions of NIR-ISL 2021 are:

1st place: Lao Yang Sprint Team (Yiwen Zhang, Tianbao Liu, and Wei Yang, from School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University) [Code and Models] [Document] [Video Presentation]
2nd place: SUEP-Pixsur (Dongliang Wu, Yingfeng Liu, Ruiye Zhou, and Huihai Wu, from Shanghai University of Electric Power) [Code and Models] [Document] [Video Presentation]
3rd place: EyeCool (Hao Zhang, Junbao Wang, Jiayi Wang, and Wantong Xiong, from College of Science, Northeastern University) [Code and Models] [Document] [Video Presentation]

Congratulations to them!

More details can be found in the IJCB 2021 summary paper, Supplementary Material and Video Presentation.

Questions